Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 323899
Launched
Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
General Availability Preview
Web
February 2025

Description

This release will extend OCR support in Exchange online from standalone images (JPEG, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, PDF) to images embedded inside following files: 1. Office: Images embedded inside XLSX, DOCX, PPTX files. 2. PDF: Image-only PDF files are already supported. This release will support hybrid PDF files containing images and searchable text. 3. Container files such as ZIP, RAR, 7Z, BZ and more.

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